What does Mr. White mean by, “I should hardly think that he’d come tonight”?

He is questioning weather or not the Person will show.

Explanation:

I do not know what context this is in so I will try my best, But Mr. White means he is not sure wether the person will show or come to the place they are meeting him!

Hope this helps :)

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.